Object Storage Service

Features

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  OSS supports various types of storage

  Standard

  High-performance, highly reliable and highly available OSS instances
  Features: Applicable to service scenarios characterized by high throughputs, hot files, and frequent access
  Durability(LRS):99.999999999%（11 9’s）
  Durability(ZRS):99.9999999999%（12 9’s）
  Minimum storage period: None.
  Application scenarios: Mobile applications, large websites, picture sharing, popular audio and video

  
  

  Infrequent Access

  OSS instances characterized by relatively low storage costs and real time access
  Features: Applicable to service scenarios that support real time, infrequent data access
  Durability(LRS):99.999999999%（11 9’s）
  Durability(ZRS):99.9999999999%（12 9’s）
  Minimum storage period: 30 days
  Application scenarios: Mobile devices, backup of applications and enterprise data, monitoring data, online storage applications

  
  

  Archive

  OSS Archive is a secure, durable, and low-cost storage class for data archiving
  Features: Applicable to service scenarios that are subject to data recovery wait time and have requirements on data storage period
  Durability：99.999999999%（11 9’s）
  Minimum storage period: 60 days
  Application scenarios: Long-term archive data storage, medical imaging, video materials

  
  

  Cold Archive

  OSS Cold Archive is a secure, durable, and lowest-cost storage class for long-term data retention
  Features：Applicable to service scenarios that are lowest-cost and for long-term archive
  Durability：99.999999999%（11 9’s）
  Minimum storage period：180 days
  Application scenarios：Long-term archive data storage, media assets storage

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  Flexible and easy to use

  Provides easy access to OSS on the Internet by using RESTful APIs and multi-language SDKs.

  
  

  Provides the console, clients, and data migration tools to easily upload data to and download data from the cloud, and to easily retrieve and manage data.

  
  

  Allows you to easily configure expired data deletion or store the data in cost-effective archives.

  
  

  Allows the elastic expansion of the storage capacity and processing capability, to store an unlimited number of files.

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  Powerful Data Processing Capabilities

  Supports jpg, png, bmp, gif, webp, tiff, and many other file formats, along with features like format conversion, thumbnails, cropping, watermarks, scaling and other operations.

  
  

  Offers high-quality, high-speed parallel audio/video transcoding capabilities so you can easily prepare audio/video files for any device.

  
  

  Accelerates content delivery with OSS as origin site and ensures stability with no retrieve from the origin bandwidth restrictions.

  
  

  Supports Hadoop and enables Hive bulk processing or Impala and Spark interactive query and analysis.

  
  

  Supports seamless integration with Alibaba Cloud Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Data Lake Analytics, MaxCompute, BatchCompute, and Machine Learning Platform for AI (PAI), and works as an integrated data lake to complete offline computing tasks, interactive query, machine learning-based training, and BatchCompute applications such as DNA sequencing and film rendering.

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  High reliability and powerful security measures

  Provides multiple backups to effectively mitigate the impact of multiple hardware failures.

  
  

  Provides fully redundant infrastructure to eliminate the possibility of single points of failure (SPOFs) and guarantee high availability.

  
  

  Supports cross-region replication and disaster recovery solutions to enable remote disaster recovery.

  
  

  Supports Resource Access Management (RAM) users for resource access management, Security Token Service (STS) for temporary access authorizations, and fine-grained access control based on buckets, directories, and objects.

  
  

  Supports server-side and client-side encryption, anti-leech, and HTTPS-based protection, to secure your data.

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  Cost-effective storage

  Provides classified storage to minimize the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

  
  

  Provides the Pay-As-You-Go and subscription billing methods, and flexible metering and billing, to reduce the cost of storage.

  
  

  Uses the transmission bandwidth offered by multiple Internet service providers (ISPs). Uploading data to OSS is free.

  
  

  Supports fully-managed storage, so you do not need to pay for additional operation and maintenance.